ROSALIND
A traveller! By my faith, you have great reason to
be sad: I fear you have sold your own lands to see
other men's; then, to have seen much and to have
nothing, is to have rich eyes and poor hands.

JAQUES
Yes, I have gained my experience.

ROSALIND
And your experience makes you sad: I had rather have
a fool to make me merry than experience to make me
sad; and to travel for it too!

ROSALIND
Or else she could not have the wit to do this: the
wiser, the waywarder: make the doors upon a woman's
wit and it will out at the casement; shut that and
'twill out at the key-hole; stop that, 'twill fly
with the smoke out at the chimney.

ORLANDO
A man that had a wife with such a wit, he might say,
'Wit, whither wilt?'

ROSALIND
Nay, you might keep that cheque for it till you met
your wife's wit going to your neighbour's bed.

ORLANDO
I must attend the duke at dinner: by two o'clock I
will be with thee again.

ROSALIND
Ay, go your ways, go your ways; I knew what you
would prove: my friends told me as much, and I
thought no less: that flattering tongue of yours
won me: 'tis but one cast away, and so, come,
death! Two o'clock is your hour?

ORLANDO
Ay, sweet Rosalind.

ROSALIND
By my troth, and in good earnest, and so God mend
me, and by all pretty oaths that are not dangerous,
if you break one jot of your promise or come one
minute behind your hour, I will think you the most
pathetical break-promise and the most hollow lover
and the most unworthy of her you call Rosalind that
may be chosen out of the gross band of the
unfaithful: therefore beware my censure and keep
your promise.

ORLANDO
With no less religion than if thou wert indeed my
Rosalind: so adieu.

ROSALIND
Well, Time is the old justice that examines all such
offenders, and let Time try: adieu.

About “As You Like It Act 4 Scene 1”

Rosalind mocks Jacques’s melancholy and Jacques defends it, calling it an original kind all his own.

Orlando finally shows up and Rosalind needles him for being late. After some joking about cuckoldry (pretty standard in Shakespearean comedies), Rosalind has Orlando pretend to woo her, then playacts a wedding ceremony between them. She asks Celia to officiate, and Celia, grumbling a little, agrees.

Orlando leaves to meet the Duke but promises to return soon. As Celia teases Rosalind, Rosalind admits that she’s falling harder and harder for Orlando.